{"id":53,"date":"2022-10-25T16:01:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T20:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/?p=53"},"modified":"2022-11-08T14:56:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T19:56:13","slug":"civil-rights-workers-station-wagon-steve-shapiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/2022\/10\/civil-rights-workers-station-wagon-steve-shapiro\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Rights Worker&#8217;s Station Wagon, Philadelphia, Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwener were missing for two days when two Native Americans of the Choctaw Tribe, who were fishing in a local creek in Neshoba County, MS, discovered their smoldering car on June 23, 1964. Steve Schapiro, who was photographing the efforts to recover the car and determine the location of the men, later recalled that, \u201cSuddenly I saw this big burly sheriff and I started taking pictures of him. He came over to me, slowly took the camera out of my hand, opened the back of the camera, pulled out the roll of film, threw it on the ground and handed me back my camera.\u201d The sheriff was Lawrence Rainey, a Klansman, and one of the men alleged to have perpetrated the murders of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"746\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/files\/2022\/11\/2019.23.14-1024x746.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/files\/2022\/11\/2019.23.14-1024x746.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/files\/2022\/11\/2019.23.14-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/files\/2022\/11\/2019.23.14-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/files\/2022\/11\/2019.23.14.jpg 1435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Steve Schapiro (American, 1934-2022)<br><em>Civil Rights Worker\u2019s Station Wagon, Philadelphia, Mississippi<\/em>, 1964<br>Silver gelatin print, 16 x 20 inches<br>Partial Gift of Stephen Schapiro and Partial Purchase by Miami University Art Museum with contributions from the Kezur Endowment Fund<br>2019.23.14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwener were missing for two days when two Native Americans of the Choctaw Tribe, who were fishing in a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/2022\/10\/civil-rights-workers-station-wagon-steve-shapiro\/\" title=\"Civil Rights Worker&#8217;s Station Wagon, Philadelphia, Mississippi\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6691,"featured_media":54,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mississippi1964","category-photographycatalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/a-lens-for-freedom-civil-rights-photographs-by-steve-schapiro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}